WESTMORELAND COUNTY FLAG CELEBRATES 250th ANNIVERSARY

The Westmoreland County flag is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year.  KDKA-TV reports that the flag came around two years before the continental congress first adopted what would be the United States Flag in 1777.  Established by Colonel John Proctor in 1775, the “Proctor flag” or the “Rattlesnake flag” was first unfurled in the wake of the fighting at Lexington and Concord.  After the war, the flag was adopted as the colors of Westmoreland County, and it can still be seen flying throughout the county to this day.